Sarah Palin: You Really Can See Russia From Alaska

I'm glad Palin can see Russia from Alaska, it brings a tear to my eye because I can see the MOON from Chicago. So what does this say about Palin? I'm 76 years old and have never in my life seen a more DUMB woman. Her voice makes me cringe, like nails on a chalk board.God help us if she ever gets in. This woman talks for hours and when she's done she hasn't said anything of substance.She sounds like one of the girls down at da corner BAR, "you beatcha"

Please, this whole discussion on whether or not you can see Russia from Alaska, and Palin's latest attempt to redefine the context of her original comment is laughable, yet sad that PD provides no context to the statement. Plain's 2008 remark to Charles Gibson (as noted) was about proximity and her foreign policy experience. Her response was shallow, non-responsive, and lacking in any political insight about Russian/US relations. They are our neighbors, and "you can see Russia from land here in Alaska," was not an adequate answer for a VP candidate. That is what the issue was about. It was never about geography, it was and is about whether this individual is qualified to be President. He continued attempts to use this as an attack on the "lamestream media" answers the question very clearly. Can you see it?

I taught English at the John Apangalook school in Gambell, Alaska, on St. Lawrence Island, the '05-'06 school year. Being on the western-most tip of the island, on the rare clear day the mountains of the Chukchi Peninsula are plainly visible across the 38 or so miles of Bering Sea that separates St. Lawrence from Siberia. Not quite 'Russia.' From the Alaskan island of Little Diomede, big Diomede is visible...a 'Russian' island.

I believe the point she was trying to make was that she had experience in foreign affairs because you can see Russia from Alaska. The fact that you really can see Russia has nothing to do with her ignorant answer.

She only dictates. Never debates issues. Learned her lesson from Katie Curick. Talk from long distance only.

Oh....she did not sell the airplane on e-bay. It was sold by a commercial airplane broker. Another Palin 1% truth.

The Diomede Islands are only 2 1/2 miles apart. Little Diomede is Alaska and Big Diomede is Russia. You can definitely see one from another. This makes Russia the closest overseas country to the U.S. And everyone thought the closest country to us was Cuba.

it is alaska and the governor was sarah palin